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XWT stands for Eclipse XML Window Toolkit. It is a powerful and lightweight declarative UI framework designed for Eclipse, based on XML as markup language.

XWT simplifies UI development by a physical separation of UI definition in XML from the run-time logic in programing language. It is very intuitive for creating interfaces directly or via tools such as Eclipse WindowBuilder. Especially for people with a background in web design and technologies.

More details http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.xwt and http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/XWT (old) Latest Release Update Site: http://download.eclipse.org/xwt/updates/

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Eclipse XWT in production?

Have anybody used Eclipse XWT in non-trivial (e.g. something more complex then tutorial) environment? I don't think Eclipse4 uses it by itself. Does it really have any advantages over SWT?
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Documentation and Tutorials for XWT

I'm currently in the design phase of a Java based project. The frontend is not overly complicated (consists of 4 to 5 separate composites/windows), meaning, it is certainly doable using plain SWT. However, if possible, I'd like to further separate…
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windowbuilder xwt design MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte of UTF-8 sequence

The problem is: When we are trying to use russian characters in xml-attributes in .xwt file (label text for instance) WindowBuilder design view crashes with error: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid…
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XWT: findElementByName returning null for a composite resource

I have a small issue with XWT, to put it simply, I have an foo.xwt file which has approximately the following structure:
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Is XWT still supported?

I see that in the new e4 repo (http://download.eclipse.org/e4/downloads/drops/S-0.15-201401152200/repository/) there are no xwt plugins... Does eclipse still encourage developers to use XWT for RCP? Or is it deprecated? I couldn't find any…
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